Thousands Honour Humboldt Broncos At Vigil

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Published: April 9, 2018 at 11:36 AM

People leave a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honour the victims of a fatal bus accident, April 8, 2018 in Humboldt, Canada.
Mourners in the tiny Canadian town of Humboldt, still struggling to make sense of a devastating tragedy, prepared Sunday for a prayer vigil to honor the victims of the truck-bus crash that killed 15 of their own and shook North American ice hockey.
/ AFP PHOTO / POOL / JONATHAN HAYWARD (Photo credit should read JONATHAN HAYWARD/AFP/Getty Images) — People leave a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honour the victims of a fatal bus accident, April 8, 2018 in Humboldt, Canada. Mourners in the tiny Canadian town of Humboldt, still struggling to make sense of a devastating tragedy, prepared Sunday for a prayer vigil to honor the victims of the truck-bus crash that killed 15 of their own and shook North American ice hockey. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JONATHAN HAYWARD (Photo credit should read JONATHAN HAYWARD/AFP/Getty Images)People leave a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honour the victims of a fatal bus accident. April 8, 2018 (Photo by JONATHAN HAYWARD/AFP/Getty Images)

Fifteen people were killed when a bus carrying the Broncos hockey team was hit by a transport truck

Thousands filled the arena in Humboldt, Saskatchewan Sunday night, laying flowers around centre ice where the puck would have dropped to open a scheduled playoff game.

Instead, the town and many visitors are mourning the deaths of 15 people who were on the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team's bus when it collided with a transport truck enroute to Friday's playoff game in Nipawin.

The 14 others on the bus were injured, some critically.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the injured at the hospital in Saskatoon yesterday, and then attended last night's vigil at the Humboldt arena.

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